Species Synnoma lynosyrana - Rabbitbrush Webbing Moth - Hodges#3746

3746

Synnoma lynosyrana Walsingham, 1879 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence #620452

Specific epithet for the former generic placement (Linosyris) of the host plant (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus). (1)

Forewing length: 7-10 mm. (2).

Adult - body and legs are covered in short black and long white scales. Males with pale ochreous yellow forewing and two diffuse, oblique, silvery white fasciae. Hindwing dark gray brown. Females dark gray with blue iridescence and scattered orange scales. Hindwing dark gray. The wings of both sexes have a ruffled appearance, with many upraised scales. (2).

Southern Montana, Idaho, and eastern Oregon to eastern California, Arizona, and western Texas. (2).

Adults fly from "September to October in the north, to November in southern California. (2).

Northern populations feed on Ericameria nauseosa and Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus. Those in southern Nevada and Arizona eastward feed on Gutierrezia. An apparently disjunct population at the western edge of the Mojave uses both plant genera. (2).

Late-instar larvae create a bundle of foliage tied up by tough silken shelters. (2).

Diurnally active. Females winged, but flightless. (2).

Walsingham, Lord. 1879. North-American Tortricidae. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. 4: 24; pl. 65, f. 9 & 10 (1)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)